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We study multilevel techniques, commonly used in PDE multigrid literature, to solve structured optimization problems. For a given hierarchy of levels, we formulate a coarse model that approximates the problem at each level and provides a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Ferdinand Vanmaele , Yara Elshiaty , Stefania Petra

The multigrid algorithm is an efficient numerical method for solving a variety of elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). The method damps errors at progressively finer grid scales, resulting in faster convergence compared to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-06 Francisco Holguin , GS Sidharth , Gavin Portwood

Automatic segmentation of an image to identify all meaningful parts is one of the most challenging as well as useful tasks in a number of application areas. This is widely studied. Selective segmentation, less studied, aims to use limited…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-08 Michael Roberts , Ke Chen , Klaus L. Irion

The present work develops hybrid multigrid methods for high-order discontinuous Galerkin discretizations of elliptic problems. Fast matrix-free operator evaluation on tensor product elements is used to devise a computationally efficient PDE…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Niklas Fehn , Peter Munch , Wolfgang A. Wall , Martin Kronbichler

The numerical simulation of structural mechanics applications via finite elements usually requires the solution of large-size and ill-conditioned linear systems, especially when accurate results are sought for derived variables interpolated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-26 Andrea Franceschini , Victor A. Paludetto Magri , Gianluca Mazzucco , Nicolò Spiezia , Carlo Janna

This paper introduces a novel approach to algebraic multigrid methods for large systems of linear equations coming from finite element discretizations of certain elliptic second order partial differential equations. Based on a discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-30 Lukas Kogler , Joachim Schöberl

We solve Poisson's equation using new multigrid algorithms that converge rapidly. The novel feature of the 2D and 3D algorithms are the use of extra diagonal grids in the multigrid hierarchy for a much richer and effective communication…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 A. J. Roberts

In this work, we propose an adaptive geometric multigrid method for the solution of large-scale finite cell flow problems. The finite cell method seeks to circumvent the need for a boundary-conforming mesh through the embedding of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-21 M. Saberi , A. Vogel

We present a geometric multilevel optimization approach that smoothly incorporates box constraints. Given a box constrained optimization problem, we consider a hierarchy of models with varying discretization levels. Finer models are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Sebastian Müller , Stefania Petra , Matthias Zisler

We introduce a geometric multigrid method for solving linear systems arising from variational problems on surfaces in geometry processing, Gravo MG. Our scheme uses point clouds as a reduced representation of the levels of the multigrid…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Ruben Wiersma , Ahmad Nasikun , Elmar Eisemann , Klaus Hildebrandt

The use of multigrid and related preconditioners with the finite element method is often limited by the difficulty of applying the algorithm effectively to a problem, especially when the domain has a complex shape or adaptive refinement. We…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Peter R. Brune , Matthew G. Knepley , L. Ridgway Scott

To precondition a large and sparse linear system, two direct methods for approximate factoring of the inverse are devised. The algorithms are fully parallelizable and appear to be more robust than the iterative methods suggested for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-08-20 Mikko Byckling , Marko Huhtanen

We have developed an efficient algorithm for steady axisymmetrical 2D fluid equations. The algorithm employs multigrid method as well as standard implicit discretization schemes for systems of partial differential equations. Linearity of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-12-01 Zoran Ristivojevic , Zoran Lj. Petrovic

Direct solution of simultaneous linear equations is regarded to be slow for large systems of equations and requires special treatment to avoid numerical instability. A new method is proposed that addresses the numerical instability without…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-05-02 Anoosh Abdy

We present W-cycle multigrid algorithms for the solution of the linear system of equations arising from a wide class of $hp$-version discontinuous Galerkin discretizations of elliptic problems. Starting from a classical framework in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-02 P. F. Antonietti , M. Sarti , M. Verani

Presented in this paper is a new sparse linear solver methodology motivated by multigrid principles and based around general local transformations that diagonalize a matrix while maintaining its sparsity. These transformations are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jonathan E. Moussa

Isogeometric Analysis is a high-order discretization method for boundary value problems that uses a number of degrees of freedom which is as small as for a low-order method. Standard isogeometric discretizations require a global…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-05 Stefan Takacs

Multigrid is one of the most efficient methods for solving large-scale linear systems that arise from discretized partial differential equations. As a foundation for multigrid analysis, two-grid theory plays an important role in motivating…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Xuefeng Xu , Chen-Song Zhang

The aim of this paper is to develop an algebraic multigrid method to solve eigenvalue problems based on the combination of the multilevel correction scheme and the algebraic multigrid method for linear equations. Our approach uses the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-02 Ning Zhang , Xiaole Han , Yunhui He , Hehu Xie , Chun'guang You

In recent publications, the author and his coworkers have shown robust approximation error estimates for B-splines of maximum smoothness and have proposed multigrid methods based on them. These methods allow to solve the linear system…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-05 Stefan Takacs